![]() Even the gods have those that oversee them, beings with metaphorical clipboards, red pens, sharp pencils, and inconvenient questions. “Because it would be against the rules,” Akatosh-Dragon God of Time, and chief god of the pantheon-responded with a deep sigh. ![]() “Why can’t our eldest brother work his speciality then?” Kynareth-Goddess of Air, Wind, Sky, and the Elements-suggested. A toddler champion will not suffice we need someone well grown, if not actually adult.” We don’t have the time required to wait for a champion to be born and then grow old enough to be a match for Alduin. ![]() “Regardless, it doesn’t help us,” Arkay interjected before another argument could begin. The one isn’t necessarily dependant on the other.” “I didn’t speak of love, only procreation. It may be nurtured, and aided, and smothered, and killed, but no being can compel love in another.”ĭibella sneered back. Mara-Goddess of Love and Compassion, the Mother Goddess-bristled. “Then we gift several mortals, and have Mara ensure that they procreate immediately.” The prophecy is clear that our champion must be born of the blood of dragons.”ĭibella shrugged. “That’s how mortals ended up with the dragon blood in the first place.” “Can we not just gift another mortal with dragon blood and have them be our champion?” Dibella-Goddess of Beauty-suggested. The facts are these the prophecy calls for a mortal born with dragon blood to be our champion, and no such mortal can be found in all of Nirn. ![]() “Pointing fingers isn’t particularly helpful,” Julianos-God of Wisdom and Logic-said, voice flat and expressionless. “I always said it would end in tears! But no! Our brother wants to play around with prophecies and champions and world ending doom, and the rest of you decide to indulge him! And now we might as well kiss it all goodbye!” “Why wasn’t anyone watching?! This is what comes of creating a chaotic destroying force and then setting it free with nothing but a tenuous prophecy to restrain it!” Arkay-God of the Cycle of Life, Death, and Mortals’ burials and funeral rites-fumed as his fellow divines looked on with shock and horror. Imagine the consternation of a group of divines as the single remaining candidate to be the lynchpin world’s champion in the foretold confrontation that was imminent, was slain before the prophecy was activated, therefore dooming the world, and subsequently them, to extinction. In order for their universe-and therefore themselves-to survive, they must look outside their own bubble and into their neighbours, offering their specialisations in trade for assistance. Sometimes, one universe’s gods will not have the capability to do what needs to be done to maintain the integrity of their bubble. Now and again gods will arise that operate beyond that level, sometimes they become head of their local committee and sometimes they remain on the outskirts, content, for the most part, to watch the goings on of those more active, intervening only to avert imminent destruction. Most of these bubble universes are run by ever-changing committees made up of the strongest resident gods, with the majority of these gods so focused on the preservation of the bubble they inhabit, that they often remain unaware of what is going on in the bubbles surrounding them. If every universe can be likened to a bubble, floating amongst a cloud of bubbles that can randomly be either very similar or incredibly different, then it is reasonable to expect the beings that govern those universes to have the same amount of variation.
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